Ben whiteley



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' B. WHITBLEY.

HAIR PIN AND BUTTON HOOK.

No. 569,144. Patented Oct. 6, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BEN WHITELEY, OF STERLING, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO I. N. FORD,OF SAME PLACE.

HAIR-PIN AND BUTTON-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,144, dated October6, 1896. Application filed April 17, 1896. Serial No. 587,937. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BEN WHITELEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sterling, in the county of Logan and State of Colorado, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pins andButton-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inhair-pins, and it has for its objects, among others, to provide a simpleand cheap construction of hair-pin, embodying likewise a button-hook orglove-buttoner. It is designed, primarily, for use just prior toelection times as a holder, by means of which a photograph of a favoritecandidate or the emblem of a political party can be displayed. The shankportion is formed of a single piece of wire bentintothe required form,and is mounted for movement in guides on the back of the'emblem orphotograph, and is adapted for use either as a pin or a button-hook,means being provided for limiting the movement of the pin in bothdirections.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear,and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by theappended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated'in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which Figure 1 is a view of the improved pin shownapplied to an emblem. Fig. 2 is a view of the other side, showing thebuttonhook in position for use.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in both the views.

Referring now to the details of the drawin gs by letter, A designatesthe combined pin and button-hook, which is formed of a single piece ofwire of suitable size and length bent upon itself at the center of itslength to form the hook B, the two arms of the wire adj acentto saidhook being in close proximity to each other to give rigidity to thedevice at that point, and then one arm of the wire is bent at a rightangle to its length, as seen at O, and thence parallel with the otherarm to form the leg D, which with the other arm forms the hair-pin.

In practice the device may be thus used either fora hair-pin or abutton-hook or glovebuttoner; but just prior. to election, or at anyother such times as may be desired, it is designed to be used inconnection with a picture of a favorite candidate or an emblem, as seenin Fig. 1, where E indicates the picture or emblem, on the rear face ofwhich are the guides F, in which the device is mounted for limited play,being limited in the one direction by the right-angled portion 0 and inthe other direction by the hook B, as shown.

Modifications in detail may be resorted to without departing from thespirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

What is claimed as new is-- The combination with a combined hair-pin andbutton-hook formed of a single piece of wire and having a lateralportion, of a device to which it is designed to be connected, the samehaving guides in which the pin portion is received and guided,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

BEN WHITELEY.

\Vitnesses:

S. A. BURKE, M. W. Hour...

